Conspiracy To Commit A Sex Crime In Los Angeles

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When the prosecutors, police and judges start talking about a conspiracy to commit a sex crime, they’re usually going to be talking about two or more people getting together to commit some sort of a sex crime. I’ve seen a number of cases where women have been drugged and raped by multiple people. This is one area where the prosecutors could charge a conspiracy because some of the players say they didn’t really have to do with all of the acts that were the crime related to the alleged victim. However, if they were part of an agreement to commit some sort of a sex act against somebody and that sex act was illegal against the person’s will – nonconsensual – then they could be charged as a co-conspirator, even though they might not have done all of the acts related to the offense.

For example, if somebody drugged the individual and then all the parties took part in the rape, it wouldn’t just be the person that drugged the individual that would be guilty, it would be all the people if they were part of the conspiracy. In other words, they knew that the person was going to be drugged, or even if they didn’t know the person was going to be drugged, but by the facts and circumstances, they should have reasonably known that the person had been drugged and a crime was being perpetrated against that person’s will.

What this conspiracy allegation allows the prosecutors to do in sex crime cases – in many cases in Los Angeles – is capture more people. In other words, it says when people conspire to do crimes, they’re much more dangerous than somebody operating alone – whether it be a violent felony or some other misdemeanor conduct. Sometimes people conspire to fight somebody else and they beat the person up and then they’re charged with conspiracy.

But when it comes to sex crime offenses in the crime of conspiracy, then obviously that’s much more serious and the person is typically going to be looking at prison and possibly registering as a sex offender depending on what they conspired to do. So, there’s really no such crime as just conspiracy all by itself. You have to be conspiring to do something illegal and one person can’t conspire. It has to be more than one person, obviously, otherwise, they would just charge the one person that was involved with the crime.

They use this concept of conspiracy to capture more than one person in the offense and that way the prosecutors are able to charge multiple people and not just one person and they are able to attribute multiple individual’s actions to the entire group. Of course, one of the key things when it comes to conspiracy to commit a sex crime in Los Angeles is they are going to have to be able to establish the evidence that proves there’s some sort of an agreement.

Obviously, most of the people who might be involved in a conspiracy or a sex crime conspiracy are not going to want to talk and admit anything to the prosecutors, but when they get one person that’s part of the conspiracy or one person who is a witness to the meeting of a conspiracy – I’ve had a number of big sex crime conspiracy-related offenses where somebody is arguably part of the conspiracy – they hear about what’s going on and they testify in the case, but they help the prosecutors so the prosecutors end up not prosecuting them for the crime.

In these circumstances, even though that person is a co-conspirator, if they’re not being prosecuted then they can testify to be able to establish the agreement, and once they establish the agreement, what the purpose of the illegal sex crime conspiracy was and who all the players were – now the prosecutor has the foundation to be able to prove the crime of conspiracy to commit a sex crime in Los Angeles.

Once they have established a conspiracy and once they have established the agreement and once they have established who is involved, now they have to establish what crime they committed, who the victim was and obviously get the victim to testify to who was involved in the conspiracy. Sometimes victims in sex crimes don’t know who was involved in a conspiracy related to them or illegal activity related to them, either because they are drugged, incapacitated, had too much alcohol, can’t see, are being held down – there’s all sort of different scenarios that can occur when it comes to these sex crime conspiracy cases. So, sometimes it very difficult for the prosecutors to prove these cases because they just don’t have all the evidence that they need.

So, if you’re charged or a loved one of yours is charged with a sex crime and the prosecutors are alleging a conspiracy, you’re going to want to get a sophisticated criminal defense attorney who is familiar with these types of cases – who knows how defend them, who knows how to strategize them, who knows when the prosecutors have a good case and they’re going to be able to prove it and who knows when a case is defensible and the defense can prevail at a jury trial.

When you’re talking about jury trials and sex conspiracy-related offenses, obviously you want to make sure that if a person is going to go to trial that they make the right decision, because if you make the wrong decision in those type of cases, you can obviously end up with a much more severe sentence and a much harsher penalty than you normally could have if you would have worked out a resolution. That’s why having an attorney who knows these types of sex crime conspiracy charges and can help you make the right decision from the beginning as to whether to fight the case or whether to try to negotiate a plea bargain is crucial right from the beginning. When you meet with your attorney, you set out the guidelines of how you’re going to be defended and what the best course of action is for you and your specific set of circumstances.

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